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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12
STORIES OF THIEVES.
HOW Clever English Rascal Puzzled ,
Liverpool Pawn Broker.

How . Clever English Rascal Puzzled n
Liverpool Pawn-Broker.
AT birmingham, not long. ago, thief
was detected in the act of stealing a gen.
tleman's watch, says writer in Cham
oers' journal. In his haste he ran into
the arms of a detective, who had been
watching him for some time. Naturally
the thief must have felt somewhat excited
at such moment; but if he did he showed
no symptoms of being so. Although in
stantly secured by the unenviable hand
cuffs, he had the presence of mind to pass
the watch unobserved into the pocket of
passer-by. This person was puzzled to
know how he became the possessor of the
watch, and being afraid of keeping the
gift, was sufficiently honest to hand it to
the police.
Another instance of the remarkable
GOODNESS and audacity of a thief, though
perhaps not an uncommon one, is worth
relating. One day Liverpool "stalkD-a
man capable of doing mischief of anv kind
for trifie-having watched his oppor-
tunlty, took up a coat that hung outside a
'ownbroker's shop. Flinging it over his
arm and carrying it into the shop as if in
tending to make a purchase, he offered it
for sale. Not recognizing his own prop
erty, the pawnbroker bought the coat.
LUZ O'Oh OHlS uLu uOb Satisfy tne tllet. lie
handled some handkerchiefs, and in choos-
ing one remarked carelessly: "Take paw
for this out of the money for the coat"
But L have given you the money!" indig-
nantly answered the pawnbroker. "Oh,
no; you haven't" said the thief. A warm
alteration ensued. In vain the shop
man protested that he had paid the
money; and at last the thief went out in
search of an officer to settle the dispute.
taking with him some silver spoons, sew
eral silk handkerchiefs, as well as the
silk handkerchief in question, which in
his excitement the broker bad forgotten.
But the thief is not always so cool and
collected as we are want to believe him.
He is especially unnerved by hunger and
the police. Not long ago well-known
actor, while in the provinces, had occa-
sion to walk some distance at midnight,
and was stopped ON a lonely road by an
ilLclad rulfian. "Foolw muttered the
actor, coolly, ''there's an officer within a
hundred yards of us; PHI" With an
exclamation the thief disappeared over
wall; and the next morning bis dead BODY
was found in river close by, into which
in his haste he had fallen
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
Democratic Platform.

We. tho representatives OF the democratic
party of Barber county. I'm convention usscn-
blod hereby cuIorsc the administration Of
President Grover Cleveland. for the wisdom
displayed therein. uui the manly honest can
an and democratic c.g -c me- has pursued In
dealing with tlc luir.tuut issues that have
presented fN.m...tt. ior his consideration
while et OBJ. r..I of tnis great government
His patriot. .u Ia been proven In every act he
hu. performed, aud his conduct In general has
hcou such that every honest man must admire
lic b.. unqucstionably. TO modern democracy
what the great Jackson was 20 the party In its
Infancy, and a. such. We take extrOme pleasure
iu onc0 more declaring ourselves a. staunch
adhcrcnts to the party whose standard-bearcr
he is. lie has acted In every mannaT becoming
the first American on the continent, and he has
fcurlcssly ana impurtially performed the duties
which he has been chosen 20 perform.
We dcuouncc the republican party OF the
nation for throwing every obstacle I'm their
power I'm the way Of the present chief execu-
tive. for the purpose OF hindcring him In car
ryiug ont those sacred principles OF reform
pledged in the national democratic convention
of isst.
We demand that mo- more Of the public lands
be- granted to railroads or other corporatlons;
Tint the utcs OF tariff be reduced on imports
uscd by the masses Of the people;
That iu-t laws be- enacted. which will stop
tho cVhorbitnnt rates charged for carrying
freight over railroads;
That we are in favor Of paying OF the public
debt us fast u. circumstances will permit;
That Ucurc IN fayOrof gold. silver and green.
hacks constituting the lawful money OF the
nation.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12

The Kansas mail service, about
which the republican press is making
such great kick, is not so bad on the
democratic administration after all.
The Mcpherson Democrat has gone to
the trouble of obtaining a few facts
touching the Santa Fe mail route un-
doubtedly the largest I'M Kansas. The
route out OF Kansas City will show the
absurdity OF charging the failure of ac-
curate service to democrats: There
are twenty-eight experienced postal
clerks running from Kansas City TO
Pueblo; Of this number fourteen are
clerks in charge at salary Of 81 300 a
year. These clerks are hold-over re-
publican clerks. The other fourteen
are newspaper men of l,lJO. and seven
OF them republicans. Fourteen hold
over clerks, an republicans, and of the
new men one-half are republicans!
Out of every four men there are three
republicans and one Is a democrat,
and this one democrat must take the
responsibility Of all mistakes that may
be made by the party making the kick.
II the democrats are to be made respon-
sible for the mistakes OF the republi-
cans, then the quicker these republi-
cans are asked - stop the better Il will
be for the service and the democratic
party"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12
AN ORIGINAL STORY.
Something About the Oil Fish of the hi
Hor., NTHnntas,s

Something About the Oil Fish of the Bic
Horn Mountains.
George Brooks, who went from Heppner
TO Montana with Sam Carmack and herd
ed for him long time, has returned, re-
ports the Heppner (Ore.) Gazette He
says he left Sans ranch last spring and
went prospecting in the wild Big Horn
mountains. He did not find much MINER
al, but claims that he did make a good oil
strike, and that he is going to return to il
after he makes a stake herding. He saws
that his prospect is in pool in a hidden
and wild gully of the Big Horn mount.
aims. The pool is sunk in solid rock, is
circular in form, is about one hundred
feet in circumference, waters of an I'M
fashionable depth, and is covered with a
sheet of oil, unbroken and nearly pure, to
thickness of nearly six inches. The oil
is rapidly generated from the pool depths,
the quantity rising above the six-inch
level being carried off through numerous
orifices in the POOLS rocky sides in con-
stantly fed rivulets. These rivulets fall
into an enormous cavity in the earth,
which yawns apparently bottomless, close
at hand. But this oil pool has also oil
fish. These fish are in shape not
unlike the eel family, and have
a decided advantage over their fresh water
prototypes in slippery characteristics.
This singular fish IS very active in move.
ment and darts e. end fro in its native oil
with an almost u, aficeivable velocity. As
the oil fish moves e leaves luminous
wave, and after nightfall the surface of
the pool presents the rilliant appearance
of a never-ending flame wave The fish is
easily caught with hook and line and
never tires of biting q piece of fat pork
and fragments of candle. 1t fails to tempt
the appetite to any great extent, as the
frying pan reduces its flesh to a pan of oil.
1t is good for purposes of illumination.
Placed head downward i'm a receptacle
prepared for the purpose the tail end is
ignited and the oil torch thus obtained
Eliminates the cabin or dugout with a
glow as brilliant as it is cheap, convenient
and unique. The water of the pool is
rather cold Immediately below the oil sur
face, but grows hot as greater depth are,
penetrated. An egg placed in a small
water tight tin vessel and lowered to a
depth of one hundred and fifty feet is
boiled hard in four minutes. But eggs are
too scarce around there to experiment
with.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12

The Arkansas Valley editorial asso-
citation met last week, at Hutchinson,
and elected officers for the ensuing
year. Some fifteen new members were
voted for and admitted into the associ
alton. The following are the officers
elected for the ensuing year: President
r. Nj. Easley, of the Hutchinson News.
|ice-President-Cash Taylor, of the
Sedgwick Paragraph. Secretary-R.
+. Dougherty, of the Newton Republi-
can. Treasurer-W. +. Bolton, of the
Greensburg Signal. Senator Plumb
spoke for half an hour on the state OF
the country and relative position of
Kansas. lie dwelt at length on the
past, the present and future of the
state. and gave IL as his opinion that
the time would soon come when Kansas
would rank first in the sisterhood of
states, for much of which the editors
of the state have been directly respon-
sible. The future, he said, was also
largely In their hands. The citizens of
Hutchinson entertained the editors i'm
royal style, and they were given ban
quet.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12
TURKISH JUSTICE.
An Extraordinary Story of Two RulIocks
and Three C.endarr,as


A week ago a drover taking cattle to
market lost two of his bullocks on the
road, writes a Rodcsto correspondent to
the LecdRt Herald. When he reached
Rodosto he at once informed the muni-
clpal authorities of the fact who dis.
patched three gendarmes in search of the
missing beasts, which it was thought
might either have strayed or have been
stolen. On the high road they met two
mouhadjirs, driving before them two
stout oxen that had suspicious re-
semblance TO those to which they were in
search. Putting, literally, two and two
together, the couple of men and the
couple of bullocks, the gendarnes chal-
lenged the mouhadjirs to halt and give up
their booty. But these had no intention
of parting with their companions; they
hurried on, believing the gendarmes TO be
brigands in search of dinner. Finding
their authority ignored, the gendarmes
nred upon the fugitives, killing one of
them. The other mouhadjir took to his
heels and escaped, leaving the cattle
there, of which the gendarmes at once
took possession. Having hastily
buried their victim, these cour-
ageous individuals came back
to Rodosto, bringing their bullocks with
them. When these latter, however, were
Sho"h W the urOVer, ne denied that thew
were those which he had lost, being OF
quite another color and another breed!
In the face of such declaration as this,
1t was evident that the gendarlnes had
erred on the side of professional zeal In
stead OF finding the lost bullocks they had
Killed q man. A.scheme to save their dig.
nifty had thus to be devised; and accord
ingly some one was prompted to swear
that the cattle they had captured belong
cd TO him and had been stolen from his
farm but little while before By this lie
he thus became unlawfully possessor of
the bullocks while generating the brave
gendarmes from all excess of zeal in the
discharge OF their duty and their carbines.
IL would, however, appear that they were
not to escape altogether unpublished. For
when the story got about, the local author
tiles put the gendarmes under arrest, not
Tor having killed an innocent man, but
because they had buried him in such haste.
without having first washed the corpse in
accordance with the religious law.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12

Tom Fenlon, in an address before the
democratic county convention, at Leay-
enworth, referred as follows to the
grand jury at that place: ':The jury
had only found four indictments, three
III The county and one in the city. A
man had been taken from the jail ana
murdered; and elder and Sunday school
teacher robbed the people and is now
IN Canada and a man had had his throat
cut on the street. Had any inquiry been
made about that? No. the jury had
put in its time smelling mems breath. >,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12
CHANGING NAMES.
How People Become Kid of Objectionable
PatrOnymics I'm New York

How People Become Rid of Objectionable
Patronymics I'm New York.
A great many more people change their
names in the course of year than one
would imagine, says the Albany IN. W
Journal. In bygone days it was neces-
sary for an individual to apply to the
Legislature for permission to alter his
name, and the variety of reasons alleged
was nearly equal to the petitions received.
An easier method Of changing an objec-
tionable patronymic obtains to-day. In
stead Of waiting until the converting of the
Legislature, as formerly, the desired re-
suit may be accomplished by applying to
the county court Of the county in which
one resides, or, il a resident of New York,
to the Court Of Common Pleas for
that city and county, specifying
the name one desires to take
and the ground of application.
This document, duly verified, will
procure ones hearts desire. The county
clerk, during the month of December fol.
lowing the issue of the order, will report
the list of changes in his county to the
Secretary of State, and this will be In
serted in the session laws of the ensuing
year.
The changes as reported occupy some
four pages Of this years volume of law.
1t is interesting to glance over them and
In the absence of assigned reasons, con-
lecture why a maiden whose given name
is Eliza should desire to be known to the
world as Lille Eliza. Isaac Abromovitz
found his name too burdensome, and
thinks Isaac Eisler to be preferable. The
same reason will apply 10 Mr.. Rudolph
Kiekenbush, whose friends now address
their letters to Mr.. Rudolph Voss. No
right minded man could object to c. H.
Costing exchanging that suggestive name
to c. II. Graef.
AS in every assemblage and at all times
one meets our mutual acquaintance Smith
he is pretty certain to turn up in the
pages headed "Names Changed" The
Smith who is changed into an Arden,
Smith who becomes a Dwight, Miss Smith
who wishes to be known by her middle
name Of Urquhart, Thomas Bassford
Smith, who, by translation, will here
after sign his mans as Thomas Smith Bass
ford-they are here. Emile Paul Motzen-
becker will, il a business man, save n ire
mendous quantity of ink, not to mention
time, by dropping the 'sMotzenbecker.v
Many are the changes for convenience:
Minzesheimer becomes Minzie, Iachiske
to Lassir, 6chleemuch To SIayton and
ozens of others.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12

''This talk about fifty cents cigars makes
me tired" remarked dealer the other
day. Il have been in Havana, and
know what am talking about when say
that the very finest cigar made can be
sold for twenty cents at profit. To make
1T cost fifty cents YOU may wrap it in gold
leaf, tie il with silk, or perfuma the box.
but you can't smoke the leaf, the silk or
box, The cigar Is what you're after. and
when you get the best, you can't get any
better. That's common sense, and TO pay
nifty cents for cigar is simply to be
cheated out of thirty cents aud let the
dealer know that you are a snob."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12

The Railway Gazette record of train
accidents for August incluces IS coils.
ions, 81 derailments, and other acct
dents, total of 1877, i'm which l27 per-
sons were killed and 323 injured. In
August, 1886, the accidents numbered
lis, the killed 81, injured 1I5. or the
killed in August, 1887, - were en-
ployes, IS passengers, and other per.
sons: of the injured 50 were EMPLOYEES.
2S2 passengers, and ? other persons.
Bad as was July, says the Gazette, Au-
gust exceeds 1T, the Chatsworth disas-
ter swelling the number of killed to al
most double the July record, while the
injured are nearly a fourth more nu-
merous. Unquestionably, the wide
spread activity in business, making
traffic everywhere heavy, is fully evil
denced on the dark side of the picture
as well as on the bright. 1t is notice
able. though, that all the passengers
killed were all the victims OF one wreck.
that at Chatsworth. In fact, the acct
dents to passenger trains on good tracks
are few indeed, and what they are are
largely due to''negligence in operating, y
thus confirming the well known fact
that IN track and rolling stock our best
lines have reached a very high state of
perfection. This should not be FORGOT
ten in considering the records of the
country as whole, which show up our
deficiencies so wildly The plain fact.
though. that negligence in operating
on the better class of Dads appears ap-
parently as OFTEN as On some OF less re-
pute should impress the lesson that i'm
proving tracks does not necessarily i'm
prove those who care for il. and having
quick acting brakes and perfected sig
nails does not always train the men who
use them.n
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12
DEATH BY GUILlOTlNE,
The Head and Body Immediately Ate
Determination

The Head and Body Immediately After
Decapitation.
The Progress Medical publishes a paper
by Drs. Regnard and Loye on the exami.
nation of the head and body of a convict
Immediately after his decapitation by the
guillotine.
The prisoner was calm to the last and not
pale, even when his neck was fixed ready
to receive the fatal knife. Two seconds
after decapitation the cheeks were still
rosy, the eyes wide open, with moderate
ly dilated pupils, the mouth firmly closed,
When finger was placed close to one eve
no change of expression took place, but on
touching an eye or the tips of the lashes
during the first five seconds, the lids closed
just as in life. This reflex action could not
be excited from the sixth second after de-
capitation. The jaws were tightly closed
and could not be opened by manual force.
No similar contraction could be detected
in the trunk or extremities. One minute
after death the face began to turn
pale, the trunk remained flacid
the carotids continuing to throw
out blood remaining in the cireulatory
area, At the end of four minutes the face
was quite pale, the upper lids were half
closed, the jaws less firmly clenched than
before. The knife passed through the
lower part Of the fourth cervical vertebra
These researches show that not trace
Of consciousness remains two seconds aft
or beheading; that reflex movement of the
cornea can be excited for two seconds;
that the heart may beat for an hour, the
auricles continuing to pulsate alone for
over half that period, and that, putting
aside the reflex movements of the eyelid,
the contraction of the jaws and the jets of
blood from the carotids, it seemed in this
case as though corpse had been decap-
itated, so inert were the remains Of the
convict. Drs. Regnard and Loye note how
calm and free even from physiological
death-struggle symptoms is death by the
guillotine. There is not even asphyxia.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12

Judge John j. Rea, the new com
mandcr-iu-chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic was born in Chester coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, October 18th, 1910.
and attended school and worked i'm a
factory until the outbreak of the war.
when he enlisted for three months from
Piqur, Ohio, April 18th, 1861, in the
Eleventh Ohio infantry, and re-enlisted
for three years August Goth, 1861, in
Company /, First Ohio cavelry. He
was commissioned second lieutenant
September 23rd, 1861, and was suisse
quently promoted to first lieutenant
and captain, and November 2srd. 1863
was breyetted major. lie resigned
November 23rd, 1864. During his three
years service he was only absent from
duty eight days, and then he was a
prisoner of war. After resigning he en-
tered the Ohio Wesleyan university
and graduated therefrom i'm 1867.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12
Sensational jewel Tb.r.

There has been :, fsse rev az Kensfngton
Palace, says London Truth. When Lady
Seymour recently returned 10 tie apart
ments which her husband. Sir Francis Sew.
mour. occupies there, she discovered That
number OF valuable Jewels had been
stolen from the cabinet in VII CD she had
left them The aid OF Scot AMI Yard Was
invoked, and tie stectiyes presently dis
covered the missing jewels az n pawn
brokers', within a eouFle OF bGndred yards
Of the palace, where they had been t,ls.a eea
for comparatively trio ug as.sount bS "a
ladf,n HIS property hav.ng bee. recov-
cred at a small expense, the matter has
been hushed up, and s'the ladyn is under
stood TO have quilted the country.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12


The Clark County Clipper says
MANY farmers are complaining be-
cause they are not furnished with 40 or
60 bushels of seed wheat instead of be-
ING limited 10 Is bushels. They must
remember the business men of Ashland,
who kindly made the loan, without
interest, to purchase this wheat, had TO
take just that much means out of their
own business which many of them
could hardly afford TO do. Only q limit
eel amount OF means could be raised at
best, and that in many cases by the
business men discountirg their note at
the banks, consequently the amount to
each farmer had to Do limited else de-
prive many of seed, to furnish the few.
No reasonable man. moving the facts
In the case, would rlmplain but on the
contrary bee thaut y for the loan"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12
The Rnttlr.nnke.. Fre-

IL you examine the eye OF a rattlesnake
just after it has been killed Won will per
ceive that il has an extremely malignant
and terrible expression, says a writer in
Forest and Stream. When be is alive and
excited l know of nothing in all nature OF
30 dreadful appearance as the eve of the
rattlesnake. 1t is enough to strike not
Pnly birds and little animals, but men
with nightmare. have on several occa-
sions examined them closely with strong
glasses and feel with all the force what
state, and will tell you that there are
few men on the face of the earth who can
look upon an angered rattlesnake through
. good giass-bringing him apparently
within foot or two Of the eye aud stand
T mers thah s momsnt.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12
HOLD ONTO YOUR FARM

The following from a state exchange
rs advice needed in Barber county as
much as in any other county in Kansas.
In county so rich in its natural re-
sources. offering openings TO so many
and varied industries, farming land is
sure to soon double and treble i'm price:
1.-The man or woman who possesses
in his or her own right hundred and
sixty acre farm, situated i'm any good
country, is extremely fortunate. and is
by no means poor. 1t is the best prop
erty, and safest and surest i'm value
that there is. Other property NAV
fuctuate-be high one day and low the
next-but your farm is always worth
good price. Live stock may die or go
so low there is no money i'm handling it:
town property owing TO some change.
may depreciate in value and even be-
come worthless; banks may fail, but
good farm Is always and at all times
good property and worth a good price.
Land is yet cheap in Kansas but it Will
not be long; it is bound to 90 higher.
and the man who sells his farm at pres
ent prices will soon regret it. $500 or
$1,000 is no money for your quarter
section of ':dirt," but there are those
who are so shOrt-sighted that they think
a few hundred dollars, which will be
spent almost as soon as received, supe-
rior to any good farm. Such men are
always to be found in every country.
They don't seem to realize the value of
land. The time will soon come when
those who are now disposing of their
land for mere pittance will see their
mistake. Stick to your farm. Break
it mp and improve it, and soon yoa will
be in comfortable circumstances and
in shape to enjoy life